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Lewin, Cathy; Smith, Andrew; Morris, Stephen; Craig, Elaine – Education Endowment Foundation, 2019
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) review of the impact of digital technology on learning, "The Impact of Digital Technology on Learning: A Summary for the Education Endowment Foundation. Full Report" (Higgins et al., 2012) (ED612174), found positive benefits but noted that how technology is used (the pedagogy) is key and that…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Improvement, Influence of Technology, Foreign Countries
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Buckenmeyer, Janet A.; Barczyk, Casimir; Hixon, Emily; Zamojski, Heather; Tomory, Annette – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2016
Patterns of technology ownership and usage, as well as skills with and preferences for various technologies, affect the college experience (Educause 2012). Students at a commuter campus of a large Midwestern public university were surveyed about technology and the learning process: 94% of the respondents believed that technology had the potential…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Commuter Colleges, Campuses, Student Attitudes
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Kimbel, Tracy M.; Jacokes, Darlene E.; Stone, Carolyn B. – Professional School Counseling, 2015
A national study conducted with the members of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) database examined school counselors' utilization of online technologies. The researchers also explored beliefs and practices and examined mitigating factors such as school counselors' background, training, and experience. Training impacted counselors'…
Descriptors: School Counseling, Online Systems, Influence of Technology, School Counselors
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Pritchett, Christal C.; Wohleb, Elisha C.; Pritchett, Christopher G. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2013
This research study was designed to examine the degree of perceived importance of interactive technology applications among various groups of certified educators; the degree to which education professionals utilized interactive online technology applications and to determine if there was a significant difference between the different groups based…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Business Education Teachers, Physical Education Teachers, Certification
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Turner, Kristen H. – Educational Horizons, 2012
Today's adolescents write to communicate--via text messaging, instant messaging, and social networking posts. They are skilled at manipulating their out-of-school digital language to communicate with an intended audience and to capture individual voice. Because the writing is informal, teens have the ability to break rules, and they can do so…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Adolescents, Synchronous Communication, Influence of Technology
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Gee, James Paul – Educational Forum, 2012
This article argues that both traditional literacy (reading and writing print) and new digital literacies (for example, playing video games) come in two grades or forms, one of which can lead to success in the modern world and one of which is less likely to do so. In both cases, the role of "academic" or "specialist" language is crucial in…
Descriptors: Literacy, Video Games, Oral Language, Academic Discourse
Watson, Pauline – Online Submission, 2012
While schools have been using computers within their classrooms for years now, there has been a purposeful ignoring of the growing power of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Many schools ban students from accessing and using sites such as Facebook at school and many English and literacy teachers ignore or deny their value as a teaching…
Descriptors: Written Language, Writing Strategies, Critical Literacy, Social Networks
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Merchant, Guy – Learning, Media and Technology, 2012
Despite the widespread popularity of social networking sites (SNSs) amongst children and young people in compulsory education, relatively little scholarly work has explored the fundamental issues at stake. This paper makes an original contribution to the field by locating the study of this online activity within the broader terrain of social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Social Environment, Research Needs
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Chen, Li-Ling – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2012
With the growing needs to address the challenges that new teachers face and the popularity of social networking technology, this study explores how to increase the effectives of teaching through the use of such technology, and how the technology may serve to promote collaboration and open new resources of support in public education. In this…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Definitions, Barriers
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Greenhow, Christine; Gleason, Benjamin – Educational Forum, 2012
This article defines Twitter[TM]; outlines the features, affordances, and common uses; and conceptualizes "tweeting" as a literacy practice, comprising both traditional and new literacies, and impacting both informal and formal learning settings. Also provided is an overview of traditional and new literacies, and insights from a scan of the…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Web Sites
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Merchant, Guy – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
Mobile phones have rapidly been absorbed into the fabric of our day-to-day lives. They are now a key consumer item, a symbol of social capital and they connect their users to a mobile web with multiple applications. As ownership and access to smartphones has spread into the teenage years, their place in institutions of formal education has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Influence of Technology, Social Networks
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Gumus, Sedat; Atalmis, Erkan Hasan – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has conducted a series of educational assessments in many OECD and non-OECD countries to support their sustainable economic growth since 2000. These assessments are named Program for International Student Achievement (PISA); they focus on the capabilities of 15-year olds in three main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Gender Differences, Structural Equation Models
Roffman, Deborah M. – Independent School, 2010
As always, "what's happening" is a product of what has come before, and the past decade has been one of phenomenal and unprecedented social change, much of it fueled by the explosion in new and powerful technologies available to both adults and children. As the rightful boundaries between the adult world and the child's world have continued to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Sexuality, Access to Information, Influence of Technology
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Garcia, Antero – Educational Forum, 2012
This article shares findings from a year-long study about social practices of high school youth with mobile devices during school time. In particular, this study found that students see their school time as fluidly social and academic. Educators and policy-makers need to carefully consider these social practices when preparing 21st century youth…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Handheld Devices, High School Students, Social Behavior
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Markauskaite, Lina – Australian Educational Researcher, 2010
This paper discusses some recent developments in digital media, research technologies and scholarly practices that are known under the umbrella term of "eResearch". Drawing on conceptual ideas of digital materialism, epistemic artefacts and epistemic tools, this paper discusses how the digital inscription of knowledge and knowing could…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Scholarship, Computer Uses in Education
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